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WILLIAM E. CLARKE, OF ATTLEBOROUGH, ASSIGNOR TO HENR-F.'MARSH,

OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS;

Letters Patent No. 80,140, dated July 21, 1868,

IMPROVEMENT IN PEN-RACKS.

TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN Be it known that I, WILLIAM Ill-"CLARKE, of Attlehorough, county of Bristol, and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and improved Adjustable Pen-Rack; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description thereof, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings, making part of this specification. I

The object of my invention is to produce a cheap and convenient adjustable pen-rack.

My invention-consists in a clasp made to spring on to the neck of an ordinary inkstand, the clasp having a rack attached.

In the drawings annexed- Figure 1 shows an inkstand and rack combined. t Figure 2 shows a vertical view of the rack removed from the inkstand. Figure 3 shows a side view of the rack removed from the inkstand. A is a common inkstand. B is an adjustable pen-rack, made of brass or any suitable material. C is the neck of the inkstand. v The circular base of the rack B is made as a spring, in order to clasp firmly around the neck 0 of the inkstand. r

i This rack maybe made to hold one or more pens, and may bemade in difi'erent shapes and devices, but the one furnished is a convenient rack, and shows my invention.

I claim the device B, or its equivalent, for an adjustable pen-rack, as and for thc'purposes specified. Boston, May 4, 1868. I

WM. E. CLARKE.

Witnesses:

CARROLL D. WRIGHT, A. F. Bnrrnnwomn. 

